APPRECIATION OF MUSIC

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21086, 10 February 1934, Page 6

APPRECIATION OF MUSIC

OK. J. C. BRADSIIAWS LECTURES TO BEGIN ON MARCH 6 Dr. J. C. Bradshaw's lectures on the appreciation of music, a series oi which is presented at Canterbury College each year, have been proving increasingly popular with the public as well as with the students. This year's course will begin on Tuesday, March 6. thereafter being continued on Tuesdays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The course, consisting of 24 lectures, though primarily designed for candidates for degrees, for students of music, and for music teachers, is suitable also for amateur listeners who desire to acquire a deeper understanding and appreciation of music. The lectures this year will be copiously illustrated by vocal and instrumental compositions of every period, from the fifteenth century to modern times. Many great masterpieces never performed in this country will be heard and discussed, and for this purpose an electrical gramophone and a large collection of fine records will be used.

Among the works to be studied this year are the following:—Symphonies: No. 3 in E flat, "Eroica," Beethoven; No. 1 in B flat, Schumann; No. 4 in E minor, Brahms. Overtures: "Figaro,"' Mozart; "Der Freischutz," Weber: "Rosamunds," Schubert; "Leonora," No. 3, Beethoven: "Hebrides." Mendelssohn; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B minor, Elgar; Brandenburg Concerto in F, Bach; Pianoforte Quintet in E flat, Schumann; Sonata for Violin and Pianoforte, Cesar Franck; Sonata for Violin and Pianoforte in G, Bach; Symphonic Suite. •Scheherazade," Rimskv-Korsakoff: Orchestral Preludes to "Lohengrin" Acts 1 and 3, and the Funeral March irom "Gotterdammerung," WagnerTone "Finlandia," Sibelius! On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and "Summer Night on the River, Delius; excerpts from Mozart's Requiem and "The Dream of Gerontius Elgar: vocal works illustrative of all periods of composition from the earlier times to the present day